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Beer row comes to a head

By Michael Steen in Amsterdam

Published: July 2 2009 04:02 | Last updated: July 2 2009 04:02

Bottle of Bavaria beer
Bavaria beer has been produced in the Netherlands since 1928, much to the anger of breweries in south Germany

When Johannes Swinkels changed the name of his family-run brewery to Bavaria in 1928 he could have had little inkling of the legal battles he was bequeathing his 21st century successors.

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